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PLEASANT RIDGE — The subject of short-term leases in Nice Ridge got here up once more at a current metropolis fee assembly.
In the course of the Jan. 13 assembly, the Metropolis Fee heard an replace on find out how to transfer ahead with short-term leases from Metropolis Legal professional Greg Want.
Earlier, on the fee’s December assembly, the fee directed metropolis workers to analyze whether or not short-term leases may very well be banned.
In line with a metropolis doc written by Want, he researched two ordinances from Dearborn Heights and Grosse Pointe Woods that just lately banned short-term leases.
In Dearborn Heights, town banned short-term leases and that “ban doesn’t apply to mattress and breakfasts, inns, accommodations, motels and related makes use of,” Want wrote. “A bit coping with enforcement establishes a rebuttable presumption {that a} property proprietor is engaged in short-term rental enterprise if he has marketed it throughout the previous 60 days, whether or not by publication, on-line or by means of a internet hosting platform. The ordinance gives that an individual who rents property on a short-term foundation is responsible of a civil violation punishable by a civil penalty of $5,000 per day.”
For Grosse Pointe Woods, Want says town has taken an easier method by defining what short-term leases are after which specifying that every one rental properties have to be occupied by the identical tenant for no less than 30 days.
Want instructed the committee on the assembly that implementing an outright ban on short-term leases might open town to an unique zoning problem, and that there’s each the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act and case legislation stating there are restrictions on a group searching for to ban land use inside its boundaries.
“This doesn’t suggest it is all the time deadly, but it surely does depart room for a problem,” he mentioned. “We thought it could be an affordable method to ban short-term leases throughout the single-family residential districts, however enable them within the multi-district, business districts. Having property the place it may very well be allowed would assist go the exclusionary zoning argument. However, as I understood a lot of the committee’s recommendation final month, it was preserving… the character of the single-family residential neighborhoods and the impact that short-term leases might have on them that led to at the least a partial ban.”
Want said in his letter to the fee that he believed there have been three choices town might pursue: sustaining the established order, which might enable short-term leases in Nice Ridge; undertake a zoning ordinance establishing which zoning districts enable short-term leases below sure circumstances, together with a allowing ordinance to control operational points; or undertake a zoning ordinance modification banning all short-term leases, with Want proposing an method much like Dearborn Heights.
Mayor Bret Scott instructed the Woodward Speak that work on what town will do subsequent remains to be ongoing, however that Metropolis Supervisor James Breuckman is trying into varied districts the place Nice Ridge might place rental properties and any circumstances that would have an effect on how they alter their ordinances.
“We shall be placing collectively a proposal that can go to our Planning Fee, and that proposal will doubtless embody a distribution of the short-term leases,” Scott mentioned.
“A significant precedence for town is to make sure that short-term leases don’t influence neighborhoods at giant,” he continued. “We do not have numerous companies in Nice Ridge, and we’re lucky that the companies we do have do a terrific job of integrating themselves into the group. They serve the individuals who dwell right here and are seen as a worth to the group. We wish to make it possible for short-term rental companies match that mould, and so we wish to deal with that in our ordinances. That will embody deciding the place they are often after which what to do with the prevailing short-term leases that exist already.”
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